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Published 11/06/2009 by AllAfrica.com


UN Agency Helps Officials in Country Tackle Outbreak of Dengue Fever

Officials from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) are at work in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago of Cape Verde to help local authorities battle the country's first reported epidemic of dengue fever.

Almost 6,000 suspected cases of dengue fever, a flu-like illness that is spread by mosquitoes,...

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